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Friday, July 19, 2013

Chinese People May Be at Higher Risk for Stroke Than Caucasians

A new study suggests that Chinese people may be at higher
risk for stroke than Caucasians.

“While stroke is the second most-common cause of death
worldwide, in China it is
the leading cause of death and adult disability,” said study author Chung-Fen
Tsai, MD, with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “The global impact of
stroke in the decades ahead is predicted to be greatest in middle income
countries, including China.
It is important to gain a better understanding of how stroke affects different
populations as we try to reduce the burden of the disease worldwide.”

For the analysis, researchers reviewed studies from 1990
onward that included first strokes in Chinese people in China and Taiwan. A total of 404,254 Chinese
were included. The study included more than two million person-years and 3,935
strokes.

The researchers also identified 10 community-based studies
among Caucasians including 1,885,067 people, more than 3.2 million person-years
and 4,568 strokes.

Comparing the two groups, the research found a slightly
higher overall risk of stroke in Chinese people than in Caucasians, with a
range of 205 to 584 strokes per 100,000 Chinese people age 45 to 74, compared
to 170 to 335 strokes per 100,000 Caucasian people the same age. Chinese also
had a higher risk of intracerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke due to bleeding
into the brain from a ruptured blood vessel, compared to Caucasian people, or
33 percent of all strokes compared to 12 percent of all strokes in
community-based studies. Chinese people had a lower average age of stroke onset
of 66 to 70 years-old, compared to 72 to 76 years-old for Caucasians.

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